In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.

The ugly secret is that AI is a narcissist machine that’s programmed by people who desperately need validation for a lonely, isolated population that desires an increasingly frictionless existence.

remember *earlier today* when the president threatened to kill members of congress?

breaking news: COP30 talks have been evacuated after a massive fire broke out inside the venue in brazil

Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction! Read more here: buff.ly/r2NOkNr

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it. The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

People have largely tried to act like ICE/CBP failed and retreated from LA and that is completely untrue. If it weren’t for the relentless coverage of places like @lataco.bsky.social these stories would be completely under the radar.

If an author posts a political viewpoint, they do so understanding the consequence of alienating a reader. They also will gain more readers for it when the stance is the president shouldn't say QUIET PIGGY to a reporter asking a question he doesn't like.

Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever: - taking maternity leave at the wrong time - spending too much time with your kids - reporting harassment - not moving every 2-3 years - taking a partner's job/preferences into account - mouthing off before tenure

Mask up, punks!!

us: Hi Google Scholar, could you stop deadnaming trans people? GS: No, but how about AI? us: No thanks. I just would like articles to not show my deadname. GS: We can't do that because of reasons. But do you like synthetic text? me: I don't want this. Let me change my deadname. GS: but... AI!

Earlier this year I saw a judge issue a bench warrant for someone in the hospital because they had a LITERAL HEART ATTACK and when their attorney objected and reiterated that they were IN THE LITERAL HOSPITAL, the judge said "this is no less important. They could have gotten themselves discharged."

Link shorteners that now, instead of resolving the link to the webpage, but rather pop up their own AI-generated summary of the page that you have to poke around in to find an actual link to the referenced page, feel like they are violating some basic aspect of the web. Looking at you bitly.

This is how you know that it's not about the money. Because if it were, then libraries would not keep being defunded.

The reason why socialism is no longer taboo in America is that our elites have successfully rebranded it as “any attempt by the state to function beyond semi-random violence“ while trying to combat it.

#3157 A helpful tutorial

every company in 2025

this is gonna play really well in a country full of people who are in perfect health and have no chronic pain

Government funding bill cuts food safety regulations. See the provisions for yourself www.snopes.com/fact-check/g...

Humans need other human beings to survive. I'm sorry that this makes some people lose their shit but it's one of the key truths of life.

Stop and frisk laid the groundwork for this moment and many many people ignored that stop and frisk was and is a real problem.

One of the great heartbreaks of being in the disability community is how often we lose people and how many of our most powerful voices have gone silent. We must live our lives loudly and joyously in their honor and remember that our very existence is resistance.

Good Saturday! Can 3 people give $24? Goal: $70 Pinagigi thanks for helping feed a Native diabetic. CA:$Murd1976 Venmo: Biglove7126 #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive #HelpSky #BIPOCMA #FundSky #MutualAidVoid #SettlerSaturday

John Fetterman survived a stroke in 2022, which would be considered a pre existing condition. He has a defibrillator for vfib, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. He was one of 8 Dems who voted to gut the ACA and reopen the government. He doesn’t have to worry, he has healthcare for life

Alice's joy at the news was short lived. She was SWARMED by Zionists calling for her reward to be taken back. She got death threats, she was so attacked online she had to go offline. And MacArthur not only failed to defend her, they took down her statement bc it mentioned Palestine!

Last year, Alice FINALLY won a MacArthur genius grant, something ppl had lobbied for for a long time not just bc she IS a genius, but bc the $ could help pay for her to keep living in her home and contributing to community, instead of being moved to an institution where she would die Unfortunately

Something everyone needs to know about @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Alice Wong was her commitment to Palestine. Just a year ago, she & I wrote a letter in @literaryhub.bsky.social defending six Palestinian journalists. Sadly, Alice now joins two of them on the other side: Anas al-Sharif & Hossam Shabat

Sugarcane was my second viewing with a live score by the Mali Obomsawin Quartet at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. The Pope’s apology has been forever altered by her voluminous score that night. Unfortunately I’m not sure everyone (white) in the audience grasped what was happening in the room.

Alice was a mentor, a friend and one of the people who I credit with helping me find my voice. She gave me the strength to embrace my disabilities and use my skills as a writer to help others. My life is forever changed because of her. I will have more to say once I’ve processed 💔

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

If unions were bad for workers, corporations wouldn’t pour millions into union-busting consultants. Funny how they fight so hard to “protect” workers from better wages, safer conditions, and a voice on the job. They’re terrified of one thing: workers having real power.

READ: The death toll in Gaza remains unknown, and statistics have become a contested tool to understand the scale of the genocide. But even if we had an accurate number of deaths, we still wouldn’t understand the depth of its meaning. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-...

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

The Pope and Le Corbusier are fascist villains hiding behind “modernity” and men’s pitching of dignity for thee and not for me. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Happening now: clergy protest ICE detention center in Chicago. “Why are you still here? Greg Bovino already left.” “It’s an internment camp…no medicine…toilets don’t work”

When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it. Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.

Goddamn the population freaks are so ridiculous. "But how will we look after all our old people" my anxious friends I have some news for you about how we ALREADY don't look after our old people, particularly the marginalised ones

Whose identity, Pete?

I also think GenAI summaries of conversations and personal emails are fucking wack and disrespectful Either you have time to genuinely engage with what someone said or you don’t

GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study in MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically LONGER than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.

Yesterday, I pleaded not guilty to the charges that Trump’s DOJ has hit me with in federal court. This administration is targeting me because they can see that I’ve spoken out against them and will continue to stand up to them.

“If they want to eat they can get a job!” 48% of SNAP recipients work full time 38% are children No one should starve because they’re unable to work, but the idea that SNAP is only for those who refuse to work is false. It’s being pushed so you don’t care that those “useless eaters” starve

New from 404 Media: ICE plans to spend as much as $180 million on bounty hunters to physically locate and stalk immigrants. I spoke to multiple private investigators/skip tracers. Some horrified. Others said they will do this work. "Money is money." www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

A new report by the Climate Transition Centre on “net-zero” banking found that *not a single major bank* is willing to stop funding new oil, gas, or coal projects. Zero. Across 36 banks, the average climate score was just 18%. They’re literally banking on collapse and calling it sustainability.

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

we don't need a Joe Rogan of the left, we need autonomous infrastructure or at the very least, labor press